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100 1 $aAnderson, Bernhard W.
245 10 $aUnderstanding the Old Testament /$cBernhard W. Anderson with Steven Bishop and Judith H. Newman.
250 $a5th ed.
260 $aUpper Saddle River, N.J. :$bPearson Prentice Hall,$cc2007.
300 $axviii, 653 p., 20 p. of plates :$bill. (some col.), maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 605-642) and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction-- The story of a people -- The Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament -- The story of the Bible -- The creation of a people -- The beginnings of Israel -- The nature of the tradition -- The oral tradition -- The prologue to the Exodus -- Population unrest in the Fertile Crescent -- The God of Israel's ancestors -- The descent into Egypt -- The oppression in Egypt -- Liberation from bondage -- The role of Moses -- The disclosure of God's name -- The contest with Pharaoh -- The victory at the sea -- Covenant in the wilderness -- Guidance in the wilderness -- The covenant at Sinai -- Covenant and law -- The breaking of the covenant -- The mosaic faith -- The Promised land -- A land flowing with milk and honey -- Forty years of wandering -- Detour via Transjordan -- The invasion of Canaan -- Israel's conquest of Canaan : the deuteronomistic view -- An alternative view of the conquest in Joshua and Judges I -- The nature of the Israelite occupation --^The formation of the tribal confederacy -- The formation of an all-Israelite epic -- From tradition to literature -- The scope of the old epic narrative -- Overview of Israel's epic narrative -- The primeval history -- The ancestral history -- The people's history -- The struggle between faith and culture -- Temptations of Canaanite culture -- Leaders in crisis -- The decline of the confederacy -- The last judge of Israel -- Israel becomes like the nations -- The throne of David -- A time of international favor -- Israel's rustic king -- David, architect of the Israelite state -- Solomon in all his glory -- New horizons of faith -- Prophetic troublers of Israel -- The background of prophecy -- The divided kingdom -- One prophet against four hundred -- Elijah, the Tishbite -- Elisha and the closing years of the Omri Dynasty -- Fallen is the virgin Israel -- The revolution of Jehu -- The age of Jeroboam II -- The herdsman from Tekoa -- The prophecy of Hosea -- The fall of Samaria --^Judah's covenant with death -- The reign of Uzziah -- The book of Isaiah --
505 0 $aMicah, a rural prophet -- Isaiah's later career -- The rediscovery of Mosaic Torah -- Differing views of the Covenant -- Manasseh, the villain of Judah -- New outbursts of prophecy -- The Deuteronomic reformation -- The Book of Deuteronomy -- The renewal of the Covenant -- Inadequacies of the reform -- Habakkuk's watchtower of faith -- Faith and nationalism -- The doom of the nation -- The suffering prophet -- The Book of Jeremiah -- In the reign of Jehoiakim -- Jeremiah's confessions -- In the reign of Zedekiah -- Beyond the day of doom -- The Covenant community is renewed -- By the waters of Babylon -- The Jewish dispersion -- Ezekial the priest -- Lamentation, mourning, and woe -- The promise of a new beginning -- Life under captivity -- Preservation of the tradition -- The priestly point of view -- The dawn of a new age -- New world horizons -- The poems of Second Isaiah -- A herald of good tidings -- The creator and redeemer -- A light to the nations -- The servant of YHWH -- Victory through suffering -- The servant and the Messiah -- The continuing Isaiah tradition -- The Book of Isaiah as a whole -- A Kingdom of priests -- Cyrus' edict of liberation -- The work of the chroniclers -- Zerubbabel, the branch -- Reconstruction and reform -- Ezra, the architect of Judaism -- Nehemiah's terms as governor -- The law and the prophets -- The praises of Israel -- The Book of Psalms -- Israel at worship -- Israel's pilgrimage festivals -- The Book of Psalms as a whole -- The beginning of wisdom -- The wisdom of the east -- Israel's wisdom literature -- An anthology of proverbs -- The wise and the foolish -- The skepticism of Ecclesiastes -- The Book of Job -- From despair to faith -- The unfinished story -- Tensions within Judaism -- The Hellenistic era -- The evolution of widsom -- The resistance movement -- The apocalpse of Daniel -- The kingdom that is God's -- Beyond the Hebrew Bible -- Israel's pilgrimage.
630 00 $aBible.$pO.T.$xHistory of Biblical events.
650 0 $aJews$xHistory$yTo 70 A.D.
700 1 $aBishop, Steven.
700 1 $aNewman, Judith H.$q(Judith Hood),$d1961-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037524.html
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